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18 September 2015

Chakra Experiences in the Awakening Process

I've been seeking a deeper understanding of the chakras this
week, preparing for the second class of my new webinar program on Living With Kundalini. I've started this webinar to bring
people together from all over the world who are living with spiritual
awakening, most of whom have felt isolated in the process. There are 21 people in the current
class, from parts of Europe, the U.S. and Canada, and now that I am learning to
navigate the internet meeting approach, I can see the many gifts of bringing
people together in this way, and I hope to offer more classes.

There
are many books and discussions of chakras, and it can be overwhelming to sort
out how they actually impact a person's direct experience.I am reframing this understanding in a way thatI feel will be most useful for those going through a
spiritual emergence,or who are in
a kundalini process.So I've woven
my own perspective of watching thousands go through awakening, with the
classicalteachings of Kundalini
Tantra, and written an essay for my website www.kundaliniguide.com. It's called
Chakra Experiences in the Awakening
Process.

Having
so much information about chakras can be confusing, and often it is very
esoteric, so a reader misses the profound implications of how their function actually
relates to spiritual awakening.For example, the second chakra, which is usually understood as related
to sexually and procreation, is also the seat of deep collective unconscious
material. So if in your awakening
there is an eruption of demonic images, or overwhelming fear, it is likely
there is energy being released as kundalini moves through this area. If a few
weeks earlier you have had a blissful opening to expansive bliss (6th chakra)
you may be shocked and appalled to find these darker energies appearing in
dreams, visions, or emotional upheavals.

Chakras, with all their symbols, represent
vortices of energy wherephysical
and subtle bodies intersect with consciousness, and each of the seven usually
identified as most significant in spiritual awakening, have unique energies and
hold patterns in our psyche.A few
of these, from the base upward, are our foundational sense of being in a body
(1st), our sexual and collectiveinstinctual energies, (2nd) our sense of power and capacity in the world
(3), our ability to love, be creative and feel compassion (4th),our potential to discriminate and deal
with the opposites (5th), and our capacity to know cosmic consciousness and our
true nature (6th and 7th).

Various spiritual traditions focus on different chakra areas
for awakening but ultimately everything we hold comes to the surface to be
transformed and awakened as well. We might wish this would happen in an orderly
fashion but it does not -- energy returns over and over to complete deeper
levels of clearing in our bodies.

So
if you wish to understand more about how your chakras are related to you own
spiritual awakening, or ifyou
justyou wonder how they might
influence how you function in everyday life, you may want to read the new essay on my website: Chakra
Experiences in the Awakening Process.

About Me

For over 30 years I have mentored and consulted with people in the process of kundalini awakening or spiritual emergence. I wrote "Energies of Transformation: A Guide to the Kundalini Process" in 1990 and recently published "The Kundalini Guide" and "The Awakening Guide" for people who need support and understanding as they move into spiritual awakening.

I was a founder of the Kundalini Research Network and currently I own Shanti River Center in Ashland, Oregon.